School reach
A week designed to invite schools across the UK to take part — in one lesson, one day, the full week, a venue visit, a live session or the Family History Weekend.
Partners & sponsors
Help launch a national week of history.
A founding-partner opportunity to back history, heritage and live learning.
History Week UK 2027 is a national schools week helping children explore the people, places, stories and events that shaped their world. Founding partners and supporters can help make it reach further — into more classrooms, more communities and more cultural venues across the UK.
Monday 26 April – Friday 30 April 2027
Family History Weekend: Saturday 1 May – Monday 3 May 2027
A national opportunity
Back a week that brings history to life for a generation.
History Week UK 2027 is being designed as a warm, joyful, national moment — five days that give schools a simple structure to explore the past in classrooms, on location, online and at home.
Founding partners and sponsors can help shape something with real social purpose: a national week that connects children with the stories, places and people that shaped their world.
Support can help create classroom resources, widen access, promote cultural venues, support schools in disadvantaged communities, and make live history connections available to more classrooms than could ever travel to a museum, castle or archive in person.
School reach & cultural network
Designed to reach schools, venues and families.
History Week is being built to connect three audiences at once — and to give partners a meaningful, values-led way to take part.
A cultural-partner network
Museums, castles, archives, galleries, theatres, libraries and local history groups are being invited to open their doors — physically and virtually — to classrooms.
Live connections
Live virtual sessions are designed to bring objects, places, stories and historians directly into classrooms that may never be able to travel to them.
Social purpose
Widen access to the past.
At its heart, History Week is about access — helping every child encounter the past through real places, real objects and real stories, wherever they live and whatever their school's resources.
- Help create open, flexible classroom resources for teachers
- Widen access for schools in disadvantaged communities
- Support cultural venues to reach classrooms that cannot travel to them
- Make live history connections available to more pupils
- Bring families and communities into the story through Family History Weekend
Support is designed to widen access and deepen learning — not to add pressure to teachers, schools or venues.
Ways to partner
Three ways to support History Week.
We are inviting a small number of partners to help shape and launch the first History Week. These are the kinds of partnership now forming.
Founding partners
Help launch a national week from the start — supporting resources, access and live history connections, and shaping a lasting initiative that connects children with the past.
Cultural partners
Museums, castles, archives, galleries, theatres, libraries, parliaments, authors, historians and local history groups invited to open their doors to schools, in person and online.
Supporters
Funders and sponsors who want to back history, heritage and live learning — and help widen access for schools in disadvantaged communities across the UK.
These are placeholder partnership types for a site in development. Specific partners are not yet confirmed — we warmly invite organisations to register their interest.
Distribution potential
A route to schools, built to grow.
History Week is being created within a wider family of school-facing projects, with the potential — over time — to reach schools at scale.
In future, History Week and its cultural partners could be promoted through the WhatSchool network and related school-facing platforms, helping schools discover venues, resources and live sessions. This is part of the long-term vision, not a launch guarantee — but it shapes why partnering early matters.
A sibling of Earthrise:Live & WhatSchool
History Week sits alongside other school- and culture-facing initiatives, sharing a warm, accessible, schools-first approach.
Designed to reach further over time
The structure is being built so resources, venue profiles and live sessions can later be discovered by schools at scale.
Founding partner window now forming
Become a founding partner of History Week UK 2027.
We are inviting a small number of founding partners to help launch a national week of history, heritage and live learning. Register your interest and we'll be in touch to talk through how you could take part.
Let's talk
Start a conversation.
If you'd like to explore founding partnership, funding or another way to support History Week, we'd love to hear from you. Register your interest, or get in touch directly.